Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Going Green

Not really talking about the enviroment here, I'm about as un-enviromentally friendly as you can get (I do recycle, I just love disposable diapers, paper plates, and bottled water), but we've seen a lot of green over the past week. Our St. Patrick's Day traditions carried on this year with our little leprechaun friend leaving green M&M "poop" or trails, as well as tiny footprints all over some of the furniture and the kids faces. We also set up our leprechaun trap which was made out of a metal box this year so he couldn't punch through and was set on the floor so he couldn't push it to the edge of a table and escape, but somehow, we STILL didn't catch him, but we did get his hat! Elle felt bad that we had it, so she wrote him a note. I'm a little surprised the twins are still into this, but I'll take it as long as I can get it.


We've also seen a lot of green in the backyard. Bud takes a lot of pride in his yard and the grass has been looking especially nice lately (I'm sure we're overwatering, sorry again enviroment :)). Over the winter, Bud also planted our first "test garden". We lost the Siberian tomatoes, weird since they should've been able to handle MUCH colder temps, but we got to harvest some beautiful beets, some small carrots, and green onions. It was really fun for us to be able to pick the food and the kids even wanted to try some of it. Bud's hooked and the same day we harvested, he planted more tomatoes, corn, strawberries, and squash.
Hopefully we'll have even better results with our summer garden.

Friday, March 18, 2011

March Madness

I'm only a little into college basketball, but the March madness I'm referring to is my nesting period. I find it hilarious that I'm taking on projects right now that have no real purpose (I should be concentrating on the nursery), but I get an idea in my head and have to finish it. The past few weeks has been the downstairs guest bath. It started as light blue when we moved in, but then I went with more of a teal/metallic theme and wanted to change the bathroom. We had it painted a dark teal, but something was still missing. So I decided to try a stencil. I've never stenciled before in my life and the one's sold at JoAnnes and Michaels are small and only one kind of went with what I was thinking of. I got it home and realized it was way too small, but being too cheap and impatient to get another stencil, I decided to quadruple and invert it to make a new design. It took a lot longer and a lot more work than I thought (as does everything I start), but the bathroom's done, I love the outcome, but won't stencil anything else ever again. : )